News Deezer’s Chief International Officer exits for newspaper publisher Gerrit Schumann joined Deezer in 2013 as VP of Europe and was promoted in 2015
News Miles Beard and Jeff Vaughn step up to VP of A&R at Atlantic’s APG The duo have worked with artists including Charlie Puth, Kevin Gates and Young Thug
Analysis Is BBC radio playing enough independent music? Just 2% of Radio 1’s 100 most played tracks of 2016 were ‘pure’ independent releases
News Sacem teams with IBM to build ‘transparent’ online royalty system URights will be open-source so other CMO’s worldwide can integrate their catalogues
Interviews ‘If the livelihood of songwriters is threatened, the music industry as a whole is threatened’ Reservoir's Golnar Khosrowshahi talks A&R and the publishing landscape
News Irving Azoff’s GMR secures global deal for Prince performance rights Deal has been in place since October 2016 on a worldwide basis
News Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd generated £198m in revenue over last financial year Post-tax profit tops £14m but falls year-on-year
News The slow death of FM radio begins as Norway starts switching off The switch will roll out across Norway throughout 2017
News Vivendi unveils four new venues in Africa – with links to UMG The theatres are part of the CanalOlympic network that first arrived in the Cameroon capital Yaounde last year
News Sonos boss John McFarlane steps down as firm fights Amazon Echo Patrick Spence takes over as CEO
News Paradigm brings AM Only and Windish Agency in-house AM Only CEO Paul Morris and Windish Agency Founder Tom Windish will continue their leadership roles within Paradigm
News Sony bought Ministry Of Sound for £67m, Century Media for £12m Sale price is significantly higher than previously reported rumours
News Sony spends £86m on 50% stake in Simon Cowell’s Syco Holdings Major bolsters its share to 75% in Simon Cowell's label, touring and TV company
News Prince’s estate signs worldwide merch deal with Universal’s Bravado Exclusive agreement comes two months after UMPG also signed global deal
News $500m-backed ole acquires 3,000 songs in Red Vinyl Music buyout Artists such as Taylor Swift and Tim McGraw have performed tracks from Red Vinyl writers
News Downtown signs deal with Meghan Trainor publisher Big Yellow Dog Music Nashville-based company also represents Maren Morris and many more
Analysis News Universal and Sony neck-and-neck in US video streaming market share – as Tunecore leads the indies Universal dominated the US last year - but was neck-and-neck with Sony for video streams
Analysis News Ed Sheeran breaks all-time Spotify record three times in four days Shape of you attracted more than 7m streams on the service yesterday (Jan 9)